Park ranger
Park ranger is a person in lead of protecting and preserving parklands – national, state or provincial parks . A “forest ranger” (in the U.S.A., colloquial) is a person typically working on a ranger district on one the 164 national forests, where they are charged with the U.S. Forest Service’s conservation mission of “Caring for the Land and Serving People”. A “wilderness ranger” is a U.S. Forest Service employee on a ranger district of a national forest who works primarily in one of the many congressionally designated Wilderness areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Ranger is the favored term in the United States and Canada; some countries use the term park warden or game warden to describe this occupation. The profession has often been over-simply characterized as “protecting the people from the resource, and the resource from the people.
